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Out Quotes by Susan Sontag
- The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself…
- We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large…
- I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and…
- It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just…
- The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is…
- I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in…
- Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
- To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify…
- Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own…
- The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2…
- War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome.…
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